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Kogi gov’s convoy caused Iyayi’s death –FRSC

Posted by admin Headlines, Kogi, State News Sunday, April 6th, 2014

The Federal Road Safety Corps has stated that the holes found on the chest of the late former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Festus Iyayi, were caused by body parts of the vehicle in which he died after an accident. The FRSC also blamed a driver in the convoy of the […]

Nigeria, the giant disappointment of Africa (1)

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, April 6th, 2014

Tolu Ogunlesi | credits: File copy I landed in Sao Paolo, Brazil, on Saturday, to start a two-week reporting fellowship for journalists, organised by the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. (More on the trip in the coming weeks). Brazil, which I’m visiting for the first time, has captured my imagination […]

Women are biggest victims of ritual killings – Okei-Odumakin

Posted by admin Headlines, Women Politics Sunday, April 6th, 2014

Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin The President of Women Arise, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, on Sunday expressed concern over the high level of ritual killings in the South-West, saying women were the worst targeted. She also condemned what she termed as the barbaric, crude and bestial handling of women in Nigeria, describing the situation as “grossly unacceptable.” […]

Nine die in Ogun bus accident

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News Sunday, April 6th, 2014

A scene of an accident on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. | credits: File photo Nine passengers were burnt beyond recognition after fire gutted a Lagos-bound commercial bus on Warewa Long Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State on Saturday. PUNCH Metro learnt that nine others sustained injuries in the accident which occurred around 4pm. Although police […]

Keshi denies sharing Eagles cash with NFF officials

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, April 6th, 2014

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi has described as untrue a statement by a former assistant coach of the team, Sylvanus Okpala, stating that the money given to the team by the Cross River State Government after last year’s Africa Cup of Nations triumph was shared by the Nigeria Football […]

Robbers kill contractor, shoot 12-year-old daughter in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, April 6th, 2014

A gang of robbers on Sunday shot dead a 59-year-old contractor, Alhaji Yusuf Surajudeen, in his home located on Adebola Street in the Ogudu, Ojota area of Lagos State. Surajudeen’s 12-year-old daughter, Aisha, was also shot in the face during the operation which lasted for less than an hour. When our correspondent visited the […]

Gang attack: 10 Nigerians hospitalised in S’Africa

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Top Stories Friday, April 4th, 2014

Ten Nigerians have been hospitalised in South Africa, while 25 shops owned by Nigerians have been looted following attacks by organized gangs. The President of the Nigerian Union in South Africa, Mr Ikechukwu Anyene, told the News Agency of Nigeria on phone from Pretoria on Friday that the attack began last week in Johannesburg and […]

Scores killed as soldiers kill Fulani herdsmen in Nasarawa

Posted by admin Headlines, Nasarawa, State News Friday, April 4th, 2014

Scores of people were on Thursday killed in a Fulani settlement near Keana, in Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State in a gun duel between soldiers and suspected Fulani cattle breeders. Many were also said to have been wounded during the incident which occurred barely 24 hours after the military deployed troops in Benue […]

Youth et baby factory ablaze in Ogun

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News Friday, April 4th, 2014

There was pandemonium in the Akinremi Estate, Adigbe, Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday after some youths discovered a baby factory around Vulcaniser Bus Stop. The incident comes barely two weeks after eight women were rescued from a baby factory in the Akute area of the state. Eyewitnesses told PUNCH Metro that the youths, who thought […]

Six missing, 22 rescued from Lagos boat disaster

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Thursday, April 3rd, 2014

At least six passengers on board a boat were feared dead after it capsized in a lagoon in the Majidun area off Ikorodu in Lagos State on Wednesday evening. However, 22 others, who also fell of the boat were rescued by local divers. The development occurred barely two weeks after 13 people died at the […]